CONSUMPTIVE, a.
1. Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.
2. Affected with a consumption or pumonic disease, as consumptive lungs; or inclined to a consumption; tending to the phthisis pulmonalis; applied to the incipient state of the disease, or to a constitution predisposed to it.
